Jon Van Til

2009 (in press)  “A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THIRD SECTOR THEORY AND PRACTICE?:  REFRESHING A WELLSPRING OF DEMOCRATIC CAPACITY,” American Behavioral Scientist.

2008  Review essay:   “Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, etc.”  Nonprofit Management and Leadership.

2007 “Nonprofit Organization Studies as Policy Research: Tracing the Lines”, in the Journal of Welfare Sociology, volume 4:1, 77-95, 2007 (with Yuko Suda, in Japanese).

2005  Review Essay:   “The Resilient Sector: The State of Nonprofit America, United We Serve: National Service and the Future of Citizenship, The Values of Volunteering: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Third-Sector Development: Making Up for the Market, The Third Sector in Europe.”  Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 34: 276 - 284.

2004   "Defining Characteristics of Civil Society", with Timothy Peterson.   International Journal of Nonprofit Law, Volume 6, issue 2, January.

2001 “Looking Backward: Twentieth Century Themes in Charity, Voluntarism, and the Third Sector.”  With Steven R. Ross.  Pp. 112-129 in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March).

“Advancement in Retreat:  On the Slippery Slope from Voluntarism to Commodification”, The CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement (2:1,June):  9-23.

1997 "Rethinking the Purpose of Education:  Facing Inequality and the End of Work".  Educational Leadership.  (March).

"Joint Review of Amitai Etzioni's New Communitarian Thinking.  Voluntas (8:1), 64-88 (with Antonin Wagner, Rudolph Bauer, and Costanzo Ranci).

1995  "Theory of the Third Sector," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (24), 3-4.  "Theory of the Third Sector."  Edited symposium.

"Sex, Greed, and Nonprofit Mismanagement."  Review essay in Nonprofit Management and Leadership (6), 93-101.

1994  "Review Essay on (Bibliographic Sources in the Third Sector)," Voluntas 5: 235-238.

1993  "ARNOVA and its Journal: Some Reflections,"  Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (22), 201-205.

1990  "Understanding Philanthropy: Fund Raising in Perspective," Journal of Library Administration 12 (4), 3-14 (with Maurice  G. Gurin).

"Will the Real 'Private Sector' Please Stand Up,"  Nonprofit   and   Voluntary   Sector   Quarterly 19   (2),      187-191.

1987 "The Three Sectors: Voluntarism in a Changing Political  Economy",  Journal of Voluntary Action Research 16 (1-2): 50- 63.

"A  Philanthropy  Bookshelf",  review essay  in  Journal  of  Voluntary Action Research 16 (3): 70-72.

1985  Review  essay  on Albert Meister  and  other  authors,  Journal of Voluntary Action Research 14 (1): 54-58.

"Voluntarism and Social Policy", 15 Social Policy: 28-31.

1984  "Citizen Participation in the Future." Policy  Studies Review, 3 (February), 311-322. 

1983  "Let's  Go, "Nonmets"!  Review essay  in  Contemporary Sociology  (March), pp. 144-145.

1982    "Leadership   and   Followership: Some Summary Propositions,"  (with  Trudy  Heller)  Journal  of   Applied Behavioral Science l8, (Number 3) 405-414.

1981  "Can  We Achieve A  Collaborative  Community?  Issues, Imperatives,  Potentials." (with Ronald Lippitt) Journal  of  Voluntary Action Research 10, (July-December) 7-17.

1980 "Citizen Participation in Neighborhood  Transformation:   A  Social  Movements Approach." Urban Affairs  Quarterly  15 (July), 439-452.

1979 "Spatial Form and Structure in a Possible Future: Some Implications  of  Energy  Shortfall  for  Urban   Planning,"  Journal of the American Planning Association 45 (July), 318-329.

1975    "Citizen   Participation   in   Criminal    Justice:       Opportunity,  Constraint,  and the Arrogance  of  the  Law,"   Journal of Voluntary Action Research 4 (Winter-Spring),  69-      74.

1973  "The Lower Class and the Future of  Inequality"  (With  Sally Bould), Growth and Change (January), 10-16.

"Becoming Participants: Dynamics of Access Among the Welfare  Poor," Social Science Quarterly (September), 345-358.

1971  "Reconstruction  or  Redistribution:  Which  Way   For   Welfare Rights?" Social Work 16 (October), 58-62.

1970 "Citizen Participation in Social Policy: The End of the  Cycle?" (With Sally Bould) Social Problems 17 (Winter), 313-323. Reprinted in Sandor Halebsky, ed., THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE CITY  (Scribner's, 1973)  and Donald Carns and  John  Walton,   CITIES IN CHANGE (Allyn and Bacon, 1973).

 JON VAN TIL  served as Editor-in-chief of the NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY from 1979 to 1991.  He has authored over 125 articles in scholarly journals, edited books, and professional trade publications.